Chemistry

Discover a curated list of renowned celebrities who have made significant contributions to the field of Chemistry. From Nobel laureates to pioneering researchers, explore their fascinating journeys and the impact they have had on scientific advancements.

Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry "for their development of the theory of chemical reactions" together with Roald Hofmann.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1930.

Chinese Taoist scholar and alchemist, famous for his encyclopedic treatises

Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968.

German physicist and chemist

Henry J. Eyring

Mexican-American chemist

Konstantin Krasusky

Russian chemist

Vladimir Kistyakovsky

Russian and Soviet physical chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Constantin Fahlberg

German chemist, inventor of saccharin.

Viktor Grignard

Joseph Achille Le Bel

Yaroslav Geyerovskiy

Chemist, founder of polarography, Nobel Prize (1959)

Gerhard Shrader

German chemist.

Julius Lothar Meyer

Hermann Staudinger

German chemist, awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Frederick Sanger

English biochemist, the only scientist to twice win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Wendell Meredith Stanley

American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, 1946, (together with D. Sumner and D. Northrop) “for the preparation of pure enzymes and viral proteins.”

American physical chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1960.

Artury Wirtanen

Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry (1913).

Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner

Academician-Secretary of the Department of Physical Chemistry and Technology of Inorganic Materials

Estonian and Soviet chemist, Doctor of Chemical Sciences

German organic chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry (1979, together with G. C. Brown).

Georgius Agricola

German scientist, chemist, considered one of the fathers of mineralogy.

Valeriy Legasov

Soviet inorganic chemist

Mario J. Molina

American and Mexican chemist

Viktor Goldshmidt

Chemist and geologist, one of the founders of geochemistry and crystal chemistry.

Hermann Emil Fischer

German organic chemist

Charles Gerhardt

Alsatian chemist, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences in Paris (1856).

Claude Louis Berthollet

French chemist.

Kuzma Andrianov

Soviet chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1912, jointly with Victor Grignard

Sergey Andronati

Ukrainian bioorganic scientist, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Donald James Cram

American chemist

Joseph Bienaime Caventou

French chemist and pharmacist

Adolf fon Bayer

Jan Czochralski

American chemist, inventor of Superglue

Josiah-Parsons Cooke

American chemist.

Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952 (jointly with A. Martin).

Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1964.

American scientist

American scientist, specialist in toxicology and occupational hygiene.

Friedrich Bergius

Hans Adolf Krebs

English biochemist

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1981, jointly with Kenichi Fukui